The Attachment Network of Manitoba

Happy New Year!! We are sending warm wishes, love and hope to everyone for 2021! From all of us at the Network to all of you!!

"Perry’s primary message is that parents need to acknowledge their children’s feelings instead of denying them (Don’t be silly) or jazz-handsing them away (Don’t cry, I’ll get you an ice-cream). We do that, she writes, because that’s how we were brought up and we copy what our parents did." https://www.theguardian.com//philippa-perry-most-parents-a

"A Place for New Moms" https://www.smallmomentsbigimpact.com/

"Advancing Parenting does parenting education, but we have no classes. In fact, we don't even interact with parents. What we do is find interesting and perhaps more effective ways of teaching everyone about parenting. Our goal is not to help specific parents improve their parenting skills, but to improve the overall quality of parenting in communities and thereby reduce rates of child abuse, substance abuse, domestic violence, and other problems that stem from unsupportive and harmful parenting." http://www.advancingparenting.org/

What does Attachment mean at a Societal Level?? - https://mailchi.mp/e00/announcements-agm-conference-2531450

One of the hardest parts of the parenting journey is ensuring the little child within us heals so we don’t project our hurts and unfinished business onto our children. It is not their burden to carry. Credit: @teresashanti__warriorcoach

Big Feelings Come and Go is now available in Cree and Ojibwe to download for FREE as well as: English, French , Arabic, Swahili, Finnish, Swedish and Tigrinya (...Eritrean Language). The book Big Feelings Come and Go is a resource to help families and caregivers have conversations with kids about freeze, flight, and fight and learn some basic self-regulation skills. This is a collaboration between New Directions and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. Go to https://www.protectchildren.ca/en/order/product/301:en/ to download the FREE PDF of the book in all languages or to order a printed copy of Big Feelings Come in English or French for $9.95 (free shipping). Also look the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s additional resources. Also, we are pleased to tell you that Big Feelings Come and Go is now available as a FREE Video Read Aloud book in English. www.protectchildren.ca/en/big-feelings-come-and-go Visit our website: www.makingsenseoftrauma.ca for our FREE webinar Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth and look at our Resource Page for more information. Check out another new resource! Parenting in Difficult Times

Join the only global conference of its kind that focuses on advocating for children’s mental health for both professionals AND caregivers. You will be accompan...ied by attendees from every corner of the world as they participate in this life changing event. 24 full and half day workshops, with over 100 hours of instruction! A life-changing 3 day event where you will learn about the leading edge research and strategies in children's mental health & parenting practices; backed by developmental psychology and neuroscience. Live-streamed and* recorded for ease of access with a 60-day viewing period for all attendees. Certified continuing education credits endorsed by the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association, with certificates of completion awarded to attendees. You will leave this conference feeling empowered with a toolbox filled with comprehensive strategies to deal with a multitude of issues pertaining to children's emotions, behaviours, and basic psychology; and armed with the knowledge to lead children to a place of healing and resilience.

What makes children get better from a trauma is connection to other human beings.... those kinds of interactions end up being much more therapeutic and healing... than many of the other things that we try to do with kids. - Bruce D Perry NVR can help - bit.ly/2TlRH2a #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #DevelopmentalTrauma #Adoption #KinshipCare #ACEs #NVR #Connection #RelationalRepair #UnconditionalPositiveRegard